Bill File

Self-Generation Incentive Program (SB 700)

BILL SUMMARY:

In August of 2018, the California legislature passed Senator Scott Weiner’s SB 700 in order to promote energy storage and renewables. This bill builds off of California’s existing Self-Generation Incentive Program, a program that incentivizes the use of existing, new, and emerging distributed energy resources in order to increase resiliency. To improve the incentive program, SB 700 does the following: it extends the sunset date of SGIP by 5 years, requires California’s PUC to adopt requirements for storage systems that ensure they reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and prohibits generation technologies using non-renewable fuels to receive SGIP incentives starting in January of 2020.